Sentence examples for waves of invaders from inspiring English sources

Early prehistorians tended to imagine waves of invaders who displaced the indigenous populations to erect new cultures.

That is unfair to a country of beleaguered men and women who have spent generations trying to survive the waves of invaders washing through their history.

In the early Middle Ages, Poland's small principalities and townships were subjugated by successive waves of invaders, from Germans and Balts to Mongols.

The weakness of Charlemagne's successors was revealed in their inability to handle the waves of invaders that poured into the empire at the end of the 9th century.

The successive waves of invaders that washed over Cadiz each carved distinct lines and wrinkles on its architecture and on the lives, temperament and appearance of its people.

The terrace has a view down to the glittering Mediterranean and up to the mountains that have walled off the Mani region for thousands of years, keeping out waves of invaders.

Its dusty roads are lined with shops and restaurants run by ethnic Han migrants, whom many Tibetans see as the most recent wave of invaders.

They threw off Minoan control c. 1400 and were dominant in the Aegean until they themselves were overwhelmed by the next wave of invaders c. 1150.

The study warns that the first wave of invaders, including the Quagga, are likely to act as a beachhead for further invaders from the Ponto-Caspian region, aiding their establishment.

This is in large part due to Palermo's quilted history, and its strategic position at the heart of the Mediterranean has brought wave upon wave of invaders, including the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Saracen Arabs, French and Spanish.

Aukema's analysis shows that while insect pests from earlier eras preferred to munch foliage, the latest wave of invaders tend to be wood borers that can silently lurk deep inside shipping containers.